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The Platinum Packaging Group, Paramount, Calif., and Terphane have been working together to provide companies with the ability to pack prepared meals with an emphasis on food safety.

The Southeast Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference is foregoing its annual Savannah, Ga., venue for a virtual event in 2021.

Food Fight GA, established during the COVID-19 pandemic to help Atlanta-area restaurant workers and farmers who supply the restaurants, is being recognized with a Produce Marketing Association Impact Award.

Frank Yiannas said the COVID-19 pandemic reinforced the necessity of public-private partnerships and confirmed the value of creating more digital-based record-keeping for the food system.

The Produce for Better Health Foundation capped the National Fruits & Veggies Month in September with its first-ever virtual influencer event.

The European fresh produce trade show Fruit Logistica is rescheduling to May 18-20 with a new model that includes both in-person and virtual elements.

For produce operators, the cost of doing business took on a whole new context after the COVID-19 pandemic began.

UPDATED: The USDA is allocating another $500 million for the Farmers to Family Food Box Program, which has already distributed more than 110 million boxes of produce, meat and dairy products.

Tony Alameda, co-owner of Top Flavor Farms, is the new chairman of the Grower-Shipper Association of Central California.

As Florida’s fall harvest season begins, there are new efforts to provide COVID-19 testing for farmworkers.